Beet Juice versus Eating Beets

Nutrient density is higher in juice and absorbability.

Eating a beet requires energy and time metabolizing.

Duh.

Duh? So instead of eating bananas, I should drink banana juice?

Both are doping unethically

Beeter wrote:

"Studies have found beet juice improves cycling time by nearly 3 percent over four to 16-km distances."

Question: why does it have to be juice? Why not eat a beet?

I'm unsure that this answers your question because we do need fluids:

"The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein."

That (from p. 7 of my paperback copy) is the 66-word essence of "Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition" by T. Colin Campbell (who also co-authored "The China Study").

Smoothies are said to provide better nutrition than juicing because smoothies are closer to the WHOLE food. I suppose for the same reason that the whole beet is better than beet juice but perhaps beet juice provides sufficient liquid whereas eating a whole beet might leave us dehydrated.

From years of beet farming I have extensive knowledge that the pulpy hard texture of the beet itself is why it is preferred to consume only the juice as the roughage slows the digestion and causes cramps. In order to get the juice out of your beet you have to pound it hard and fast, no juicing machines (as others have suggested) work quite as well as the human touch. Unfortunately getting the juice out of your beet is a messy affair, which is why I have invented my own beet juice remover: Beet Off.

I tried beet juice once and was so nauseous I could not even run at all. In my experience beet juice decreased performance.Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.

Typical letsrunner wrote:

Both are doping unethically

rjm33 wrote:

I tried beet juice once and was so nauseous I could not even run at all. In my experience beet juice decreased performance.

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A while back I was juicing (vegetsbles) just for vitamins etc. I add beats because I like them in salads, sweet. One day, had extra beats I decided to "use up". It was a huge mistake, total vomit fest. Too much beat juice and I was projectile vomiting - spraying red liquid everywhere. I felt like hell for most of the day. Was terror. Apparently this is well known (learned after, feel free to google). When it comes to beat juice, be very very careful and use small amounts. Or prepare to spend s day projectile vomiting. It also my my pee red all day. Very weird psychologically to be peeing red.

Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.

Totally ridiculous. Beet juice is a nutrient. So what if it aids performance, it isn't a drug. WADA needs to learn how to focus on important issues. Baking soda should be banned, athletes have had strokes using it improperly.

1/2 for WADA, not bad for such a collectively incompetent and corrupt organization.

Run some more races wrote:Baking soda should be banned, athletes have had strokes using it improperly.

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do you have a link to articles about this?

Where does one buy beet juice? Asking for a friend.

Beets are much different than bananas in pulp to fluid ratio and nutrient to glycemic index ratio.

Should you even be eating bananas? I don't, the glycemic index and far outweighs the intake of any nutrient benefit.

If you juice something, it will have more immediate absorbability for performance, so if you wanted more direct nutrients from whatever you believe your banana offers, then yes you would juice.

However, first question is: why do I even eat bananas? If you look enough, then you shouldn't.

Duh.

Eating a beet works, it's just a question of getting a larger volume of the beet juice without having to eat all the beets. I have had a glass of beet juice before my last 2 30k races and a marathon without stomach issues. Juicing is a pain though, I am currently putting about 1/3 to 1/2 of cooked beet into my daily smoothie. Chronic supplementation works, maybe not as well as acute supplementation. Cooking does not affect nitrates.

Do you have a link to this statement? It's the craziest thing they've done yet if true.

[quote]rjm33 wrote:

Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.

[quote]Typical letsrunner wrote:

you have to drink it slowly. sip it....or you'll get the most intense sugar rush of your lifei chugged about 4 ounces at the end of a long run (hadn't had breakfast) and i had to lay motionless on the kitchen floor, drooling for 30 minutes, or i would have vomited. kind of feels like the deepest part of bad food sickness when the initial nausea hitsbe careful.

rjm33 wrote:

I tried beet juice once and was so nauseous I could not even run at all. In my experience beet juice decreased performance.

Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.

Typical letsrunner wrote:

Both are doping unethically

Or make the beets into soup.

The real secret of Russian success isn't Meldonium but borscht.

BS, Nice try...WADA is not banning either.

This article presents the science on Beet Juice :

http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/beet-juice-how-much-and-when

The article also has a link to Beet It, a UK product of "beet shots" (about 2 oz). They are tasty, but do upset the stomach a bit at first. You get used to them, but beware of red pee later in the day, that will scare the sh*t out of you....also, bear in mind that the science is showing that the more highly trained the athlete the less the positive impact of the beet juice. So if youa re a plodder, take them.

Смета́на wrote:

Or make the beets into soup.

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^This with a dollop of sour cream

concentrated sugar bomb wrote:

you have to drink it slowly. sip it....or you'll get the most intense sugar rush of your life

i chugged about 4 ounces at the end of a long run (hadn't had breakfast) and i had to lay motionless on the kitchen floor, drooling for 30 minutes, or i would have vomited. kind of feels like the deepest part of bad food sickness when the initial nausea hits

be careful.

rjm33 wrote:

I tried beet juice once and was so nauseous I could not even run at all. In my experience beet juice decreased performance.

Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.

I did not research it enough. I did 8 oz. of beet juice in 4 seconds... plus or minus 1 second.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

nutritinist wrote:

Beets are much different than bananas in pulp to fluid ratio and nutrient to glycemic index ratio.

Should you even be eating bananas? I don't, the glycemic index and far outweighs the intake of any nutrient benefit.

Each player must be allowed to play at least one inning in the infield in each game

However, first question is: why do I even eat bananas? If you look enough, then you shouldn't.

Duh.

Yes, because runners/athletes need to be very scared of the "glycemic index"....?? C'mon, please don't tell me you believe that crap you wrote? But what's also funny is that you tell people to worry about the glycemic index, but then tell them to: hold the fiber, and drink straight juice (fiber would slow digestion, and slow blood glucose rising). Which one is it?

Also, like many fruits, the sugars in bananas are about 1/2 fructose, which doesn't raise blood glucose much. Also, their carbs are half complex. So your big worry there is overblown (bananas do have a a high GI impact).

Lastly, one banana can provide (for only a little over 100 calories)-

4 grams fiber

20% (of daily need) vit c

15% potassium

20% manganese

10% Magnesium

10% copper

10% biotin

25% b6

and 5% of more of 5 or 6 other essential vitamins/minerals

"Bananas also have small amounts are sterols like sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol. As these sterols look structurally similar to cholesterol, they can block the absorption of dietary cholesterol."

So......great job! Avoid bananas at all costs!!